Improvement in hand-plows



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LE ROY IVICWHINNE'Y., OF WINTERSET, IOWA.

LetterePateut No. 95,367, datedSepte/mber 28, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN HANDPLOWS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may conce/rn Be it known that' I, Ila-ROY MCWHINNEY, of Win.

terset, in the county of Madison, and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improved Hand-Plow, for use in gardens; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, ciear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making part of this specification, in Which- Figure I is aside elevation, and

Figure 2, an'elevation ofthe opposite side.

The same letters in all the figures 'represent the saine parts.

My invention relates to a hand-plow, especially designed for use in cultivating gardens, as a substitute for the ordinary garden-hoe.

In the annexed drawing- A is the handle, and A B, a rod of iron, bent 'so that the shank b-shallstand at an angle of about forty-ive degrees when the portion b' is horizontal.

'A mould-board, C, in the form of an ordinary plow,

is welded to the point of the bar, and, extending back, the upper portion is curved in proper form, to easily turn over the earth, precisely as the-ordinary eldplow does. Y

This plow will be found to be of very convenient use in cultivating between the rows of izegetables or plants, in a kitchen ortloWer-garden, ast may be easily. drawn by hand, and the passage of the plow will loosen the soil and turn under the weeds.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an article of manufacture, a hand-plow, com- Y 

